Best intentions… I sent out a newsletter with two free gifts. Happy Holidays to all.

Turns out one of the links was broken (my fault), and (when fixed) both links were limited to 100 downloads a day (not my fault, other than selecting the wrong place to do the delivery). To give you an idea how frustrating for all this was, including me, I received a “notice of non-delivery” for EVERY failed download attempt… over 1000 of them.

I quickly researched an alternative delivery method, found one, and then sent it to the newsletter subscriber list. But then, TinyLetter.com, the email distributor (the subscriber database is too big — over 4000 — to use traditional email, it crashes it), stepped in to FREEZE that email (because I’d sent out an ill-fated rescue email earlier that day, prompted a robot on their end to stop the presses, fearing it was SPAM), and now they won’t respond to my requests for help.

How generous of you to give us these freebies. I recognize that it’s valuable to you from a promotions standpoint, but it’s even more valuable to us from a learning standpoint. Thanks for overdelivering, as usual, especially when you had to slog through the Red Sea instead of having it parted for you.

I hope the path to publishing “Search for Story” is smoother than this one was!

Larry – your first sentence grabbed me – a crappy week! Gotta be an inciting incident going on. For I had a crappy week also, just didn’t have the courage to call it as it was. Your calling it has made my morning – forgive me, but I laughed and laughed. Situations happen and so that little saying “There are no problems, only life situations” makes you want to third finger whoever put those seven words together. Thanks for all the good you send out among us.

I know I should not take consolation from the fact that even Larry Brooks can also have crappy weeks, but I do, I do. Above all, CONGRATS on selling “Search for Story”. Thank you for writing it. The second it’s out, it’s going up on my bookshelf right between Aristotle and my dog-eared copy of “Story Engineering”.

Thank you for keeping on keeping on. Your insights and instruction are so very valuable to me. I’m sorry it was a crappy week for you, too. I’ve had a couple in a row, and hadn’t even tried the downloads (saved in my inbox folder) for later.

Will look forward to perusing them when the crappies have run their course or I have the moxie to just say the heck with it and pull my cave in behind me.

Thank you, Larry, for these two gifts. And what timing! Not long after my (mumbledy mumbleth) birthday, reasonably close to Christmas, and while I’m flat on my back sick and in dire need of inspiration. And chocolate, but this will do. I’ll take what I can get! Hope your week gets better (and that mine does too)!

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